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The report highlights how cancer research is extending and improving lives and includes a special feature on COVID-19 and cancer challenges.

Smoking is on the decline, and Black lung cancer rates are the better for it.

The National Cancer Institute stands to lose more than $500 million, and cancer prevention programs are at risk.

But 34.2 million adults are still smoking and many are using other tobacco products.

Even the most active expert witnesses for the tobacco industry have not published research on tobacco.

Swedish Match will be able to advertise its pouches as posing a lower risk of lung cancer and other illnesses than cigarettes.

AACR report highlights progress in preventing and treating cancer—including 27 new drug approvals last year—but disparities persist.

The study tested the effectiveness of CEASE, a program that aims to reduce children’s exposure to secondhand smoke by helping parents quit.

Research shows people with cancer who quit smoking respond better to treatment and are more likely to survive cancer.

“We wanted to understand how these precancerous cells may impact neighboring cancer,” says Christian Young, PhD.

Use by adolescents poses a concern: Medical experts say some users will transition to tobacco products, which are closely linked to cancer.

The FDA wants to help separate fact from fiction to when it comes to methods used to quit smoking.

Five ways the tanning and tobacco industries use the same playbook

People who smoke at the time they are diagnosed with cancer should quit; if only it was that easy.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration cited a long commute and time away from family as reasons to step down.